Conservatives Say Obama to Blame for Mideast Protests, Not Anti-Islam Film

As protests set off by an American anti-Islam film continued across the Mideast on Friday, several thousand conservatives gathered for the annual Values Voter Summit in Washington, where the global events have not escaped notice.

“We should not be held hostage by a radical Islamic contingent that reacts violently to anything that would question the activities of the Islamic faith,” says Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a conservative advocacy group that sponsors the summit.

“The events in the Middle East have nothing to do with the movie,” says American Values president Gary Bauer, who called any suggestion to the contrary “obscene.” “If one buys in to that, then the only solution would be to voluntary accept sharia law, which says you can’t criticize the Prophet.”

Politicians speaking at the conference echoed some of those sentiments, but mostly blamed President Obama for the protests. Rep. Michele Bachmann called Obama “the most dangerous American president we have ever had on foreign policy,” and said, “We are witnessing the direct consequences of this administration’s policy of apology and appeasement across the globe.”

Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan critiqued the President’s response to the Libyan crisis. “Amid all these threats and dangers, what we do not see is steady consistent American leadership,” he said. “Only by the confident exercise of American influence are evil and violence overcome.”

White House spokesman Jay Carney said protests across the mideast were caused by the “reprehensible, offensive and disgusting” film and not “directed at the United States writ large.”

LOL....The annual Values Voter Summit are all Republicans...a small piece of information this article conveniently leaves out. Elizabeth hon...try being a journalist, this is nothing more than a blog and otherwise not news worthy.

Immediately after becoming president, Obama , skipping key counties Russia, China and Germany, visited Egypt to give a boost to Muslim Brotherhood. Obama organized the Muslim Summit to unite all Muslims. He appointed Muslim Brotherhood men in sensitive posts in the government. He is openly hostile to Israel. Pre-Obama America had friendly regimes in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, and during the four years of his presidency all these friendly countries have become hostile to America. The riots we see today in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Nigeria, Sudan are living examples of the failure of Obama in handling foreign policy. Cameron and Sarkozy intervened on time and saved thousands of lives in Libya. Because of Obama's impotence, bloodbath has been going on for months in Syria. Struggling Syrian women and children are asking, "Is there a president in America?"

Let me begin by saying I'm neither left or right. I make my political decisions based on whats best for the nation, not whats best for me personally. That being said, I go to all sights, left, right, and everything inbetween. I read a great number of the posts. What I've noticed is that, be it left or right, you are all hypocrites. I say this because each side continually bashes the other for doing the exact same things their opposition does. Really, read what you complain about the other side of, then read your own posts. Its pathetic. If we don't all grow up and come together soon, we are doomed as a nation.

Nasralla, who has been identified as president and CEO of Media for Christ, the organisation alleged to have produced the film.

Media for Christ is based in Duarte, California, and advertises its mission as promoting Christian values.

Pastor Terry Jones, from Florida, who gained notoriety after threatening to burn a copy of the Koran over plans to build an Islamic cultural centre near the site of the World Trade Center, has said he was in touch with a Mr Bacile over promotion of the film, but did not meet him and could not identify him.

According to Gawker.com, soft-porn director Alan Roberts was brought in to work on the film by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula. The site says he too may not have been aware what he was actually working on."

I wish in my heart of hearts that Muslim people would heed your message, but I know they will not." Terry Jones cannot burn the Quran. It is unburnable. It sits in our minds memorized, in our hearts internalized and is protected by the Almighty — just as all of God’s miracles have been protected. And, there isn’t a man on earth who can burn our flag. It is unburnable".

The same can be said to Americans, who are concerned that someone would burn the Bible. Or that someone would burn an American flag. The responses are exactly the same the ranting and raving of the faithful against morally reprehensible actions of the Other.

"In fact, what is "disgusting and reprehensible" is that there are people in the world who think they are justified in attacking and killing people because someone hurt their feelings or offended their sensibilities."

"The killing of Amb. Stevens was a premeditated hit, planned and carried out as retaliation for the recent drone strike that killed the number two Al Qaida operative in Afghanistan recently. The vulnerability of Stevens at the Benghazi compound was scouted out carefully. All the other embassy protest activity is just covering theater."

"Bill Maher made a comedy/documentary called "Religulous" that's most famous for mercilessly mocking Christianity. But what people forget is that the last twenty-minutes or so of the film make a damning case against Islam.